In short, concatenative languages behave in a way which looks imperative (like C or Perl), but can be reasoned about in a functional manner (like ML or Haskell).
These languages are only beginning to be studied, although Forth had a heyday in the 80s, and Postscript is notable for being the most commonly metaprogrammed language in existance (a trait which I believe is not a coincidence).
... Maybe, but not for the reasons you're presenting (e.g. some illustrative Joy example when many far clearer and more obvious versions exist). I do see how
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... I've denied that your question is meaningful. Like the cat-like-discussion being 'wrong' because it doesn't look to the ... My response is the same as it